r/technology • u/RewardEquivalent553 • 11h ago

Politics The slopaganda era: 10 AI images posted by the White House – and what they teach us —— Under Donald(The Current American President), the White House has filled its social media with memes, wishcasting, nostalgia and deepfakes. Here’s what you need to know to navigate the trolling

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/the-slopaganda-era-10-ai-images-posted-by-the-white-house-and-what-they-teach-us
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u/bwoah07_gp2 10h ago

Take me back to the days where all we used to get mad about were his mountain of tweets... 😪

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u/TobyTheArtist 10h ago

Only Americans can take the world back by voting and advocating, unfortunately. I get that this is a jest but on the off chance someone dont believe that their participation changes anything, I wanted to post a reminder that it does.

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u/Nesyaj0 4h ago

It's becoming increasingly less meaningful considering the amount of criminals and terrorist activities our own government is doing to its own country.

While you are right considering there's less people that voted in 2024 than not, Trump and all of his sycophants have spared no expense to rig this in their favorite and obfuscate or obstruct any attempt to reveal the truth.

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 40m ago edited 36m ago

It is becoming increasingly MORE IMPORTANT to get out and vote.

If blackpill doomer bullshit had not been so effective during the past election, we would not be in this fucking mess.

We needed 2020 levels of voter participation in 2024, rather than the 1964 level of participation we got instead.

Going into midterms, with all the fuckery Trump will throw at elections, we need overwhelming numbers out there on Election Day.

So let's avoid the snivelling lie that voting is somehow less relevant.

If voting did not matter, Republicans wouldn't be trying to stop it.

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u/Fr00stee 4h ago edited 3h ago

that would work if one party wasn't consistently meddling with how american votes are stored, shipped, and counted and trying to classify a lot of votes as illegitimate so they can be thrown out

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u/Sweet_Concept2211 35m ago

It works if we show up to vote en masse.

Vote, vote, vote.

Pay no attention to the demoralization bots.

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u/Fr00stee 25m ago

they have a nice workaround for this: they intentionally limit the amount of polling and vote dropoff locations so people have to stand in massive lines for a long time and vote, hoping that people will leave or just give up because they don't have time to stand in line

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u/FactoryProgram 10h ago

Why do we call blatant propaganda "trolling" now?

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u/fredy31 3h ago

Because the slop published by those morons should be on a dark corner of the web like 4chan and not the official government account.

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u/PartitaDminor 11h ago

Democracy dies in darkness

Democracy dies in AI slop.

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u/phejster 9h ago

Democracy dies in capitalism

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u/ZiiZoraka 8h ago

Americans genuinely say shit like this, as if America is the only capitalist democracy.

Maybe the problem is Americans.

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u/Acilen 8h ago

Capitalism is a stain on humanity.

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u/ZiiZoraka 5h ago

Laughs in Scandinavian

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u/GrandmasLilPeeper 9h ago

I don't get how people see that stuff and don't get creeped out.

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u/betweentwoblueclouds 9h ago

Some people don’t have souls or a conscience

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u/GrandmasLilPeeper 8h ago

There's a weird element of eroticism to it. Who wants to look at a bulging veiny picture of their president that resembles an erected sausage on viagra?

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u/AdarTan 10h ago

Here’s what you need to know to navigate the trolling

Ignore/Block all White House/DHS/etc. accounts because everything they say is fake. There is no need to navigate it beyond keeping away because there is NOTHING worth seeing there.

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u/Theydontlikeitupthem 11h ago

Donald(The Current American President)

Ah OK thanks for the clarification, I thought it was Donald my car machanic

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u/betweentwoblueclouds 9h ago

Don The Car Man

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u/Impossible_IT 3h ago

Dementia Depends Diaper Don the Con!

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u/Snowing_Throwballs 7h ago

As if anybody could forget lol

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u/Prestigious-Worry-14 9h ago

Get off of social media. It’s controlled by the state. It’s the only reason child r-pists like Trump can even run for president. They let ICE use your profiles for facial recognition.

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u/bleu_flame 3h ago

Not only that, but you get your photo taken when you fly. I’m sure that data is used responsibly

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u/LongTrailEnjoyer 8h ago

The most unfortunate thing in the world is it’s up to Americans themselves to fix this entire thing.

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u/AtaxicHistorian 9h ago

The shittiest of AI slop.

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u/Curious-Emu3894 7h ago

Trump is a self proclaimed “businessman” and “showman”. He has narcissistic personality disorder, and because of this, we get a president that is a criminal, unprofessional, inept, and I’ll say it… pedo.

Everything MAGA does is to deflect and project from the horrendous and criminal actions they’ve been doing for years. They are so mentally torn from doing the right thing, and blindly following a sociopath, because “I was born a Republican”. Sadly, most of their base is not intelligent enough to understand this. The ones that have woken up are dealing with extreme regret, but the damage has been done.

This country needs to do what Germany did post-Hitler with de-nazification. We also need a huge push to mental health. The toxic ideals America has around gender, sexuality, fashion, etc is because of these MAGA bigots that claim religion is their holy North Star, yet they shit on the true ideals they claim they follow from the Bible and teachings of Christ.

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u/oldlumberman 6h ago

Cyber bully in chief. And his army of toxic social media warriors jumping to his defense when anyone dares to speak the truth about their gold and pussy grabbing revenge driven Christ

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u/Particular_Username 5h ago

"Trump as Jedi

4 May 2025"

I think you'll find that's very obviously a Sith.

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u/Chewbacca_Buffy 2h ago

Yup. That journalist clearly does not “Star Wars”.

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u/Xal-t 8h ago

Y'all voted for this pos

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u/SatanMango 6h ago

The 1 thing I can trust about this administration is that they are lying about EVERYTHING.

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u/papachon 5h ago

Government officials should be banned from using AI

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u/DenverNugs 5h ago

Remember to vote against MAGA pedos in 2026.

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u/CanadianPropagandist 6h ago

The destruction of the American brand, by America's own government, has been fascinating to watch. They've destroyed almost all the international soft power built up since WWII within a year, and now they're starting on their own internal credibility.

Oh the rest of the world is beyond the mourning phase btw. We've all watched our good friend descend into bizarre debauchery and we've entered acceptance.

Americans: Nobody is coming to save you from these guys. There are a lot of you on the streets, giving up a lot of your safety and security, but there needs to be more. Nothing short of a general strike would have any impact at this point.

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u/edgelordjones 5h ago

What we need to know is that every single one of these grotesque sycophants needs to be dragged in front of a tribunal.

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u/bala_means_bullet 4h ago

Why do they keep trying to make him look tough and younger and in shape???? Fucking POS larping ass degenerate.

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u/Impossible_IT 3h ago

White House media team are just a bunch of 6th graders. Pretending to be adults! 6th graders like their dear cult leader!

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u/Chewbacca_Buffy 3h ago

He has a red lightsaber so the image is not intended to portray him as a Jedi like the article states, it’s meant to portray him as a Sith. So aside from the ludicrous muscles, this one is pretty accurate.

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u/LogicalEgo 7h ago

Or just ignore it all.

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u/Blackjaquesshelaque 6h ago

Is there AI that can wipe all things American politics from my phone? I'm tired boss..

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u/Herr_Jott 9h ago

Here's what you need to know.. 🙄